Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is
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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, \x34All politics is applesauce.\x34 In 41 years as a print and broadcast journalist, most of those years with the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star, Pat has covered national politics under eight American presidents. He's attended 10 national political conventions, Republican and Democratic alike, and has interviewed countless prominent political players, including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who likes to boast that his state doesn’t bother much with pesky regulations on industry, takes great umbrage at any suggestion that attitudes like his are at least indirectly responsible for a recent deadly explosion at a plant in the tiny hamlet of West.

To be fair, state and federal agencies alike could be faulted for regulatory laxness at the plant in question, as we see HERE. But the fact remains that Perry is especially eager to sell his state as one that imposes relatively little regulation on industry.